"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Skylune wrote:
You can get YOUR reality check by looking at the OSHA statistics of the
most dangerous occupations. Pilots and flight engineers came in third,
behind loggers and commercial fishermen. And we know that the amateur
pilots crash more often. As they say, you can look it up...

Crashes actually have little to do with it. According to USA Today, the
high casualty rate in professional pilots is due to diseases associated
with the high level of stress that comes with the job.

Huh? The BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries lists "aircraft pilots
and flight engineers" as having the third-highest rate of "fatal WORK INJURY
rates" (http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm). (The BLS tracks
occupational *illnesses* in a separate set of statistics.) So if USA Today
claimed otherwise (do you have a reference, please?) then they must not have
read the most basic information available on the subject.

--Gary